I have heard the murmurings of the children of Israel: speak unto them, saying, At even ye shall eat flesh, and in the morning ye shall be filled with bread; and ye shall know that I [am] the Lord your God (16:12)

And it came to pass, that at even the quails came up, and covered the camp: and in the morning the dew lay round about the host (16:13)

And when the dew that lay was gone up, behold, upon the face of the wilderness [there lay] a small round thing, [as] small as the hoar frost on the ground (16:14)

And when the children of Israel saw [it], they said one to another, It [is] manna: for they wist not what it [was]. And Moses said unto them, This [is] the bread which the Lord hath given you to eat. (16:15) com1

This [is] the thing which the Lord hath commanded, Gather of it every man according to his eating, an omer for every man, [according to] the number of your persons; take ye every man for [them] which [are] in his tents (16:16)

And the children of Israel did so, and gathered, some more, some less. (16:17)

And when they did mete [it] with an omer, he that gathered much had nothing over, and he that gathered little had no lack; they gathered every man according to his eating (16:18)

And Moses said, Let no man leave of it till the morning (16:19)

Notwithstanding they hearkened not unto Moses; but some of them left of it until the morning, and it bred worms, and stank: and Moses was wroth with them (16:20)

And they gathered it every morning, every man according to his eating: and when the sun waxed hot, it melted (16:21)

And it came to pass, [that] on the sixth day they gathered twice as much bread, two omers for one [man]: and all the rulers of the congregation came and told Moses (16:22)

And he said unto them, This [is that] which the Lord hath said, To morrow [is] the rest of the holy sabbath unto the Lord: bake [that] which ye will bake [to day], and seethe that ye will seethe; and that which remaineth over lay up for you to be kept until the morning (16:23)

And they laid it up till the morning, as Moses bade: and it did not stink, neither was there any worm therein (16:24)

And Moses said, Eat that to day; for to day [is] a sabbath unto the Lord: to day ye shall not find it in the field (16:25)

Six days ye shall gather it; but on the seventh day, [which is] the sabbath, in it there shall be none (16:26)

And it came to pass, [that] there went out [some] of the people on the seventh day for to gather, and they found none (16:27)

And the Lord said unto Moses, How long refuse ye to keep my commandments and my laws? (16:28)

See, for that the Lord hath given you the sabbath, therefore he giveth you on the sixth day the bread of two days; abide ye every man in his place, let no man go out of his place on the seventh day (16:29)

So the people rested on the seventh day (16:30)

And the house of Israel called the name thereof Manna: and it [was] like coriander seed, white; and the taste of it [was] like wafers [made] with honey (16:31)

And Moses said, This [is] the thing which the Lord commandeth, Fill an omer of it to be kept for your generations; that they may see the bread wherewith I have fed you in the wilderness, when I brought you forth from the land of Egypt (16:32)

And Moses said unto Aaron, Take a pot, and put an omer full of manna therein, and lay it up before the Lord, to be kept for your generations (16:33)

As the Lord commanded Moses, so Aaron laid it up before the Testimony, to be kept (16:34)

And the children of Israel did eat manna forty years, until they came to a land inhabited; they did eat manna, until they came unto the borders of the land of Canaan. (16:35)

Now an omer [is] the tenth [part] of an ephah (16:36)

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